Samuel gantz



UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL GANTZ, or BEAVER CREEK, iuAmznAivlvl INVALIDS BEDSTEAID.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,666, datedJ anuary39l1860.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GANTZ, of Beaver Creek, in the county of Washington and State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved Surgical Bedstead;` and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In surgical and medical bedsteads where a suspension canvas has been employed above the mattress it has been common to raise the patient `from the mattress. Such elevation of the patient often alarms and otherwise disturbs him and renders it inconvenient for the nurse to wait upon him before he is let down again.`

To remedy these difficulties and otherwise improve the bedstead for the sick is the object of my improvements.

My invention consists of a new arrangement of supension canvas and also in an arrangement for lowering the mattress instead of elevating the patient.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l, is a top View of my bedstead the bed clothes beingremoved to show .the suspension `canvas. Fig. 2, is an end view of the same. Fig. 3, shows the mode of attaching the sus pension canvas to the side bars or rails.

The posts A, FigQQ, are connected by two end bars A, and A, in any convenient manner. revolving upon bearings in posts A, and they support canvas S, Fig. .1. The canvas is attached to these bars by means of a groove and rod, as seen in Fig. 3, at w. By this arrangement the canvas is easily removed for washing.

In order to tighten the canvas, one of the bars F, is rotated, thus winding upthe canvas. Upon the ends of this bar F, are

The side bars F, are capable of.

ratchets intowhich work` pawls forwsecuringg f the bar and canvas iny place`,after the latter; has been stretchedor tightened.` l. p In the center ofthe canvas S is an open-51X` ing which may beclosed by alap I-I, the out-M 5 line of `which is shown inl dotted lines Fign l. One end of this" flap is fastenedabya rod t K, passing into loops upon `the Hap and the 501 canvas, as indicated indotted lines, Fig. l..` The other end of theflap `is `fastenedzin a similar manner by `lever I,.by `whichtheflap may be tightened, the long end ofthe lever being secured by a pin entering holes i, in 55. bar A. This arrangement wallows the re` moval of flap H, separate from canvas S for washing. I t f y The mattressM, Figa 2, is supported `onpl .p slats which rest onlthe secondary sidefFQfeo; which in turn are supportedbylend bars Bi V These bars B` slide up and` down `infgroovles"` made in the postsA, the wholebeing yp-"` i erated by crank I), shaft d, and cord;L; The y mattress is fixed in place by apinin guide et` bar C. This construction` allows the. mat-M1` tress to be lowered asshown in red linesFig.` y l 2, while the patient` rests quietly Iupontlie 3` canvas S. VTherefore the l patient 1 is #not` 3 y liable to be shaken `or ffrightened `and `hefZO` remains in convenient `positionfto be waited" upon. y

I am aware that` a suspensory` canvas` above a mattress is not new.;` but l p p y What I claim is 3 f 75 The above described new.arrangementl of f canvas-and mattress the latter being lowered while the former `remains i at. rest, asldescribed for thepurposeset forth. f

Witnesses: f l

.EDM.'F. BROWN, DANIEL BREED. 

